Bug 25774
| Summary: | Ethernet driver not loaded after installation | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Mark H Johnson <mark_h_johnson> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | mdrew |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | Florence Gold | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-02-07 02:06:48 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Mark H Johnson
2001-02-02 23:11:29 UTC
Is that an ISA card? We (Red Hat) should really try to fix this before next release. Are you trying to use the 3c509 in PnP mode, or did you manually set the IRQ and I/O port? Answers to a couple questions. - [notting] yes, its an ISA card - [mdrew] hmm - I'm not sure I understand the question. I think the card is in a default setting. I made no manual settings of the IRQ nor I/O port in Linuxconf to get the card active (made sure DHCP was set, set the driver to 3c509). The current settings in Linuxconf for adaptor 1 are... [x] enabled [] Manual [x] Dhcp [] Bootp ... next few items blank ... net device eth0 kernel module 3c509 There are no other network devices on this system. The 3c509 can operate in two modes: PnP mode and manual mode. This mode can be changed by utilizing the 3c5x9cfg configuration software located on the second disk of the driver set (downloadable from 3Com). The card being in PnP mode may have prevented the installer from detecting the card or maybe from loading the module (or there could be a bug with writing the /etc/modules.conf or the ifcfg file), so the questions to ask would be: 1)You did configure networking (set to DHCP) during the installation? 2)After a clean install and a reboot, what are the contents of the /etc/modules.conf file? 3)Also after the clean install and reboot, is the /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 file present and properly configured: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes 4)If you change the configuration of the card with 3c5x9cfg to manual mode and set it to a free IRQ and I/O port, does the installation work properly? Hmm. It may take some time to free up a machine to test. [I'm using the last one to compose this message...]. Here's answers as I can provide "right now". 1. Networking was configured w/ DHCP. A side note - I did one install w/ the floppy boot & network install & got the driver (3c509) from the "driver disk". It worked OK for the install - surprised it didn't after reboot. 2. Contents of /etc/modules.conf. Hmm. I have two copies - the .OLD one has the following line. alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc the current one has that line plus alias eth0 3c509 I assume the latter line is what's missing from the install. 3. The .OLD version of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.OLD is what you described. 4. I think I can do that or at least check what it was set as. If it helps, these old machines used to be running NT 4 on them. This looks maybe like Bug# 25571. Closing due to inactivity. |